radio specials & mixtapes

U dvanaestoj epizodi Improvizacija slušamo Ristićinu kompoziciju wizard dreams of roses, skladanu posebno za ovu prigodu i popraćenu razgovorom o njenom glazbenom obrazovanju i djelovanju, otklonu od klasičarskog fetiša virtuoznosti, pristupu zvuku i njegovom bilježenju i brojnim drugim temama.

Izvedbu i odgovore je snimila Manja Ristić, a autor podcasta je Lujo Parežanin.

Improvizacije: Manja Ristić

https://radiopunctum.cz/shows/eastbloc-dispatches

Tracklist:
Manja Ristic - Water Memory
Manja Ristic - I'm plucking trapped air

Eastbloc Dispatches 04/23 by Andra Amber Nikolayi w/ Manja Ristić

this edition of framework: afield has been produced in croatia by regular contributor manja ristić >> https://frameworkradio.net/2023/07/853-2023-07-09/

producer’s notes:

dear listeners,

I am always very inspired and happy to contribute to Framework afield. This time, I decided to offer a slightly unusual episode! The mix of conceptual, ambient, improv, and field recording works by some of the most incredible musical minds out there, a kind of alchemical soup in which I am searching for music within music.

This time I came up with a little experiment: juxtaposing a sound piece, “Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing”, with the magnificent works of others, by building an emotional palimpsest of moments and places in which all sound works were made, but most of all, by building a mutual content from the psychological material embedded in chosen works. It is a “soundtrack” for a sound piece, made around a very important topic – marine noise pollution and its effects on living systems in the South Adriatic’s littoral belt.

On top of that, I believe the brilliance of sound and music is hidden in all those emotional aspects that make us human. Love, joy, grief, despair, a constant search for knowledge and meaning; intimate existence far beyond quasi-intellectual aestheticisation and fake appropriations, as well as more radical deviations such as mutual hurt and destruction of others, beings, and environments.

Try to listen, as we are all submerged under the surface of the seas and rivers, trapped in the atrocious noise of the Anthropocene.

manja ristić 2023.06

[artist  /  release  /  track  /  url  /  label]

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak – 03 Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020) (excerpt)
https://saltern.bandcamp.com/album/naldjorlak
Saltern

Manja Ristić – Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing?
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/kuda-plovi-ovaj-brod-where-is-this-ship-sailing
self-release

PINKCOURTESYPHONE – All Intensive Purposes – 05 crushing softness
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/all-intensive-purposes
Room40

Aleksandar Škorić – spring rituals – 02 fatima
https://aleksandarsk0ric.bandcamp.com/album/spring-rituals
self-release

Verónica Cerrotta – Camadas verticales – 01 Camadas verticales
https://sellopostal.bandcamp.com/album/camadas-verticales
Sello Postal

PINKCOURTESYPHONE – All Intensive Purposes – 06 comfortable predictability
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/all-intensive-purposes
Room40

Seasonal Diary I – Radical Tenderness – 01 Ned Milligan – Two Woods
https://objectsandsounds.bandcamp.com/album/seasonal-diary-i-radical-tenderness
objects & sounds

Zhe Pechorin – Boundary Lessons – 06 B3. My Sunsets
https://etangbrulant.bandcamp.com/album/boundary-lessons
Etang Brulant

Manja Ristić – tailless tarantella lifted its head – 05 Mostar
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/tailless-tarantella-lifted-its-head
self-release

Manja Ristić – The Return of Medea – 05 The River Kelvin
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/the-return-of-medea
self-release

李劍鴻 Li Jianhong & 文智湧 Wen Zhiyong & 鄧博宇 Deng Boyu – 歲寒三友 Les Trois Amis de l’hiver – 01 進入河谷的第二束光 The Second Light Shining into the
https://wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/les-trois-amis-de-lhiver
WV Sorcerer Productions 巫唱片

PINKCOURTESYPHONE – All Intensive Purposes – 04 out of an abundance
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/all-intensive-purposes
Room40

framework:afield

#853:  framework: afield [manja ristić]

Epizoda 1 – Erupcija 


Prvu epizodu posvjećujem Erupciji, mladalačkom projektu koji se kroz razne okolnosti poslijeratnih društvenih previranja vremenom transformirao u cjeloživotno umjetničko i duhovno prožimanje, zajedništvo u odrastanju kroz glazbu, kulturnu subverziju, buđenje psihičkih potencijala i isceljivanje bića kroz kreativne agense. 

Erupciju pokreće beogradska čelistica Ivana Grahovac davne 1997. godine sa solo nastupima koji su podrazumjevali performativne minijature ozvučenog violončela sa jakim uplivima procesirane elektronike. Uslijed suradnje koju ostvarujemo kroz komornu glazbu već na prvj godini studija beogradske akademije, te iste godine, pridružujem se Erupciji. 

Kroz improvizaciju, istraživanja na polju proširenih instrumentalnih tehnika i ekspermentiranje sa elektro-akustičkim sadržajima, gudački duo ubrzo privlači pažnju beogradske underground scene. 

25 godina ogledanja, integracije i dezintegracije ideja, nebrojenih koncertnih iskustava u širokom spektru glazbenih žanrova, djeljenja emotivnih i duhovnih prostora, suživota, putovanja i procesiranja raznovrsnih utjecaja, proizvelo je simbiozu glazbenog razumjevanja van očitih okvira, i jedan sasvim poseban glazbeni dvojac čija je praksa neprekidno otvarala vrata svima koji su bili željni drugačijih prostora u zvučnom performansu. 

Erupcija se prepoznaje po obelodanjivanju “skrivenih uglova” u kojima svemir šapuće kroz fragilne sonične simulakrume. Poseže za utemeljivanjima spontanih energetskih razmjena, mističnom iskustvu zvuka, neponovljivim gestama. Duo Erupcija sinonim je za slobodu izražaja i aktiviranje duhovnog naboja u improvizacionom elektro-akustičkom performansu.

numere koje slušamo:

1. night chant 1, izvedba: Erupcija i skladateljica Mina Mitrušić, snimak iz napuštenog Turskog kupatila, Beograd 2007.
2. Ateh, izvedba: Erupcija, u preklapanju sa duo improvizacijom snimljenom u alternativnom kulturnom prostoru Kvaka 22.
3. Moonwalking for piano, drone, wind chimes, bowed vase & mouldy toast, izvedba Erupcija.
4. Astral diaries, remix nastupa sa koncertnog serijala Improstor, Novi Sad.
5. Lament for Vera.
6. Duo improvizacija iz prostora Kvaka 22, drugi dio.
7. Cold air, izvedba: Manja Ristić, improvizacija na napuštenom klavirskom okviru.
8. Samekh, remix neobjavljene arhive, sa terenskim snimcima Avale i hidrofonskim snimcima Dunava.

HRT Radio Special — Glazba i Obratno — Manja Ristić, Episode 1 — Eruption Duo

My name is Manja Ristić, and you are listening to the Framework radio International Women’s Day special.

> https://frameworkradio.net/2024/03/880-2024-03-10/

In this edition you will hear sounds and creators from South Africa, Marocco, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Iran, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Columbia; Spain, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia; from UK, Australia, USA, Germany, Italy, and Ireland; with aporee sounds of morning prayer in Ramallah, and bird’s song from Jerusalem – I am taking you for a journey around the Globe presenting the real sonic history of the world, the one told by girls and women. From place to place and from heart to heart, these voices hold the space together, storytelling from the shadows of oppression and discrimination, with wounds inflicted by systematic neglect, poverty, and wars – these authors speak the truth and nothing but the truth.

I am deeply humbled to present works by fierce creators, researchers, mothers, activists, freedom fighters, tribal elders, and one famous nun, life-long expats, and former sex workers; extraordinary versatility, and contemporaneity of their sound, being their common denominator, is what will mark this International Women’s Day Framework mix.

[ artist – release – track ]

Zayaan Khan – Ephesus at Fajr
Li Yilei – Pillow, Mantra and Trance
aporee.maps – Birds of Jerusalem, April 7th 2012
Kei Watanabe – Whisperings – 03 A whole in my heart
Elyse Tabet – seaside – 06 Sequel – live to tell (with Nadine Makarem)
Maria Papadomanolaki aka Dalot – Departures – 11 Unknown Parks, Unknown Cities
Concepción Huerta – The Earth Has Memory – 02 The Crack is Illuminated
Ana María Romano G. – A mundanear que el mundo se va a acabar
Chantelle Gray – On the lower frequencies, I dream
Eruption Duo – Eruption 20 Years – 07 Worms
Hara Alonso – Notions of Hope – 02 Notion 2
Maryam Sirvan and Hadi Bastani – trans.placed – 01 trans.placed
Assoc. Lalla Rkia Ali o Hmad (Timgharin N’Tiznit) – Salamou Alaykoum ⵚⴰⵍⴰⵎoⵓ ⵄⵍⴰⵢⴽoⵓⵎ
Ester Kärkkäinen aka Himukalt – the gun in her mouth
Robertina Šebjanič – Aqua Atmo Adriatic, 10 meters deep
Cynthia Zaven – Untuned 
Gail Priest – elbejée – aötebe 
Manja Ristić – tailless tarantella lifted its head – Vrnik 
Marija Balubdžić Umbra – Derealized – 05 B1 Sreda
Belinda Blignaut and Jacques van Zyl – Mud Rites
aporee.maps – morning prayer in Ramallah
Katharina Schmidt – Another Year – 02 september. the first sweater of the fall
Beatriz Ferreyra – UFO Forest + – 04 Vivencias def
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Jerusalem – 01 Famine Disaster 1974
Manja Ristić – Bunur Bridge, Neretva River – hydrophone
Florconvenas – Donde hundimos nuestros nombres – 01 Para detonar
Stella Veloce – Saturday 
Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy – She Came Through the Window to Stand by the Door – 03 Encircled in Moss
Meghan Judge – heterodyne relations – gaia intrudes
Talulah Lotus – Horrorphone 
Manja Ristić – rain from the bag in the big forest
Youmna Saba – Ritha’
Pheobe riley Law – cove – 01 cove
Verónica Cerrotta – Camadas verticales – 01 Camadas verticals
Jasna Veličković – Shadow Study #4A
Ava Rasti – Apranik Records – Eight Night
aporee.maps / Birds of Jerusalem – April 7th 2012

Framework IWD 2024 —— Manja Ristić

1.	Dubiya mint ‘Aliyen – Excavated Shellac – An Alternate History – 51 El Khar (Mauritania)
2.	ANOHNI and the Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross – 09 Why Am I Alive Now
3.	Francisco López – Silent Trains – Korea – 01 Guryegu to Seoul
4.	Umbra – Derealized – 03 A3 Clown And His Reasons
5.	Rakotondrasoa and Manjakaray – Excavated Shellac – An Alternate History – 85 Rakoto O! (Madagascar)
6.	Concepción Huerta – The Earth Has Memory – 05 The Sacredness – Minerals & Rhizome
7.	Pinkcourtesyphone – Arise in Sinking Feelings – 05 notes on vacuuming
8.	Hara Alonso – Notions of Hope – 07 Notion 7
9.	Atsuko Hatano – Cells #5 – 05 Prelude to Foghorn
10.	Joseph Kudirka – Music Box Music – 10 Galileo 1
11.	San Salvador – Excavated Shellac – An Alternate History – 84 Narciso Ku Matadi (Congo)
12.	Mir – WM – 01 Bozur
13.	Youmna Saba – Ritha' 
14.	Nesa Azadikhah – Exhaustion EP – 03 End Of My Mind
15.	I broke the vase – Τα Αθηναϊκά – 03 I haven't met you yet
16.	Kamizdat – Solidarity Fund · Hydro – 14 Lena Ortega – Dandelion
17.	Mark Vernon – Dramaturgy of Decay – Pouring from Hollow to Empty
18.	Sawako – Sounds – 05 
19.	Marija Lončar & JuVeЛири – The Music of the Secret Society that Owns Belgrade – Volume 5 – 04 Vir (Requiem за Југославију)
20.	Kei Watanabe – Whisperings – 05 Mermaid Bones
21.	Sufjan Stevens – Reflections – 04 Mnemosyne
22.	Joan d'Arc & the Salvation Army – Cœur-Age – 02 Carnage
23.	Monks of the Maru Monastery at Lhasa – Excavated Shellac – An Alternate History – 72 Tse-Chu Cho-Pa (The Offering on the Tenth) (Tibet, China)
24.	Abby Lee Tee – Hollow Trunks
25.	Talulah Lotus – The Robots
26.	Joseph Kudirka – Music Box Music – 11 Galileo 2
27.	Savvas Metaxas – Folk tales and the rain – SIDE 2
28.	FRANCE JOBIN + YAMIL REZC – Un día en México – 01 La Reforma
29.	Manja Ristić – Giovanni Di Domenico – Alinea – 04 Fantasmi Appiccicosi
30.	TAPAN – High Road
31.	tiny tiny press – TEXTURES of TOKYO vol. 01 – 13 Kindergarden
32.	Salim Abdullah – Excavated Shellac – An Alternate History – 50 Kwaherini (Tanzania)

RADIO.D59B / PONOCNI PROGRAM #50 w/ DJ Brka Feat Manja Ristić

hydrophone recording of the wind and currents trapped between the boulders

King's Caves —— Isle of Arran

"Cruel folk you are, unmatched for jealousy, you gods who cannot bear to let a goddess sleep with a man." (Calypso to Hermes, who has just ordered her to release Odysseus. Homer, Odyssey 5.120)


Calypso’s Dream is a soundscape collection sculpted from the subtle sonic morphologies of the micro-environments on the island of Mljet in the South Adriatic. The collection serves as a conceptual counterpoint to Homer’s Odyssey and a critical reflection on commercial island attractions such as Odysseus’s Cave, where he was supposedly held captive for seven long years by the nymph Calypso.

In search of a different gender approach to the ancient Greek myth and its contemporary commercial appropriation, we created a simple narrative from Calypso’s perspective, inspired by the work of the renowned writer Margaret Atwood, who wrote The Penelopiad, and tried to unravel the archetypal mystery by narrating the Odyssey from the perspective of his wife Penelope, who was left for 20 years to defend the kingdom and raise their children.

Calypso’s Dream is an attempt to create a symbolic micro-episode of The Penelopiad within the medium of sound art, woven from the dense spectrum of the island’s biophony, instrumental and improvised narratives, critically reflecting on the commercial appropriation of culture, advocating for the importance of a listening culture, and emphasizing the urgency of raising ecological awareness.

The island of Mljet is one of the oldest European protected natural zones, still, there is so much more that can be done to keep this Adriatic marvel away from harsh trends of mass tourism.

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The release includes a PDF booklet containing curatorial text and images of Mljet's many aquatic micro-environments, flora, and fauna.

The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Department for Education and Culture. 

All sounds recorded and edited by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon
Hydrophones used for underwater recording — JrF & Aquarian
Mastering by Goran Simonoski / La Plant Studio
Cover art, images, text by Manja Ristić

The Deadly Grief Of Calypso

Hermes & The Cruel People

Nymphs Of The Great Lake

Calypso's Dream

Miserable Man Ulysses

The Morning After The Shipwreck

The Goddess Calypso, Daughter Of Atlas

During 25 years of collaborative music creation Ivana Grahovac & Manja Ristic reached audiences across Europe and further with their unique sensibility and music knowledge. In 2006 duo starts frequent collaborations with electronic music composer Rastko Lazić. Eruption is building a new improvisational music scene in Belgrade since the mid-90s.

HRT Radio Special — Glazba i Obratno — Manja Ristić, Episode 1 — Eruption Duo

Eruption Duo

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